纪传体
Traditional form:
紀傳體
Pinyin (reading):
jìzhuàntǐ
Definitions:
- history genre based on biography, such as Sima Qian's Record of the Historian
Characters:
- 纪 - discipline, age; period, era; record, annal
- 传 - to pass on; to propagate; to transmit; summons
- 体 - body; group, class; form, style, system
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